Edinburgh Travel Essentials

Beautiful Photos from Edinburgh

Photograph of Edinburgh Castle and the Balmoral from Calton Hill, the city's best vantage point. Photo #G3975

Photo of the Royal Scots Grey memorial statue in Princes Street Gardens taken from Princes Street. Notice the yellow and white daffodils on the slopes of Castle Rock . Photo #3617

Picture of stained glass reflections in St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh. Photo #G3831

Origin of 'Edinburgh'

Tourists have problems with the name of Edinburgh. There are hundreds of ways people write it and the most common writings include 'edinburg', 'edinborough', 'edimburgh', 'edinbourgh', 'ediburgh', 'edinbugh', 'edinboro', 'edingburgh', 'edinbrugh', 'edimburg', 'edinburugh', 'edingurgh', 'edinbrough', etc.

According to the Scottish Place Names dictionary, the name Edinburgh means 'Fort of the Rock Face'. The 'edin' part comes from Scottish Gaelic and means 'rock face', while 'burgh' comes from Old English meaning stronghold.